Another Attack on Free Speech
Here we are again. I wrote about free speech back in April, but of course had no idea how this […]
Read more →Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Here we are again. I wrote about free speech back in April, but of course had no idea how this […]
Read more →It’s Booker season again, as the long list for this year’s prize has just been announced. It is an international […]
Read more →‘On 1 February 1984, an Englishman with a rucksack and walking-boots strides into a bungalow in the Irene district of […]
Read more →“There’s a point in your life when you quit expecting wonderful and delightful things to happen to you, and I […]
Read more →The Homecoming by Harold Pinter is a remarkable play. It is staged quite frequently, and I have seen it in […]
Read more →Harry Perrin wrote for us at the beginning of July this year, suggesting that there will always be an appropriate […]
Read more →‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.’ You might be familiar […]
Read more →You may have heard that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is […]
Read more →There have been intriguing reports about two recently published novels. One of them is a dark fantasy. Piranesi is the […]
Read more →Some more poetry thoughts this week, as the Forward Foundation has announced its shortlist for the Forward Prize. On the […]
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